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The other guy said men can't have man-only spaces, referring to Boy Scouts in contrast to Girl Scouts, and you said that Boy Scouts isn't supposed to be a safe space to explore gender identity or emotions. If Girl Scouts isn't that kind of thing either, then that sounds like you think men only get to have that kind of man-only space, while women can have whatever.
As a man, if the only man-only spaces available were about gender identity or emotions, I'd probably go to neither. The former because I'm fully comfortable as a man (and the use of the term "gender identity" there implies it's more for trans people,) and the latter because I don't have significant issues with my emotions. Frankly, I don't really mind that most of the clubs and events that interest me are co-ed, but if there was a recurring women-only Minecraft party or something and there was never one for men, I'd be upset about that.
I was saying we could create the missing liberal spaces ourselves. ThePantser said we couldn't because we're being called out as sexist when we do that. The only example for that being "boy scouts" which I suppose means BSA, an organization with massive sexual abuse and bullying problems (according to Wikipedia). No idea how they are supposed to be "liberal".
Whether the girl scouts accept other genders or not has no relevance for that argument. And if it would be fair for them to do that is a completely different discussion because girls are hit by sexism in a completely different way than boys.
No, it doesn't.
And again you are completely ignoring any arguments about why these spaces might make sense.